AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey all! This chapter is dedicated to Femimoon, for being awesome. Pure awesome.
Gordon looked at Chell as Kleiner finished reading Chell's story out loud. "Break's over," said Alyx. The woman in orange looked to the man in orange. They both knew that the other had been through more than anyone should,and that they would both do whatever it takes to save the world. "Let's go." Alyx said. The other two nodded, and followed Alyx.
"Hey, Chell!" Dylan called. "You forgot your portal gun!" Dylan picked up the device and placed it in Chell's hands, who smiled at him.
"I'll take that as a thank you." He stated.
"Well, like Alyx said, break's over, let's go!" Barney said.
They all continued walking with the fellow Resistance members, who were talking about what they would do if GLaDOS agreed to help them. Chell and Gordon just nodded and listened to the others talking excitedly. Except Alyx, who tried her best to be cheerful, yet couldn't stop thinking about her father. Chell noticed this, and smiled at her. Alyx returned the smile, and started their own conversation.
"I bet you're looking forward to going to the Borealis."
Chell nodded grimly.
Alyx chuckled a little. "So tell me, this Wheatley...?"
Chell stared straight ahead.
"Right, sorry. What was it like to go through Old Aperture? Did it feel like there were ghosts? Did if feel like you were trespassing people's memories?"
Chell looked at her new friend, thought a moment, then nodded.
"Was GLaDOS the reason why you can't talk?"
Chell shrugged.
"You don't know?"
Chell nodded.
"Oh. Well, I hope you get your memories back soon."
Just then, a roaring sound was heard.
"Damn it!" Alyx yelled. "They're just not gonna leave us alone, are they?"
Chell looked worriedly at Alyx.
Alyx immediately knew what Chell was thinking. "Yes, Chell. It's the Combine. Got your shotgun?"
Chell nodded and checked to see if it was loaded.
Just then, I giant almost fish-looking helicopter came right above their heads. Chell coughed as dust rose up from all around them, while the others seemed used to this.
"DROPSHIP!"
Men in uniforms and masks started jumping down from the dropship and the ship itself started shooting at them. Chell quickly took her portal gun and shot herself on top of a nearby roof, as the others looked on in awe. They all followed suit and jumped in the portal, all on the roof and started attacking the grounded Combine.
Grenades were thrown up, and Gordon, with his own scientific device shot the grenades right back down at them.
"Look out!" one yelled, just before a giant explosion sounded.
"Outbreak! Outbreak! Outbreak!"
Chell watched in amazement as everyone fired from all around, the sound of bullets bouncing around in her head.
"Freeman, ammo!" A woman shouted as she handed Gordon some bullets, which Gordon took and put into his empty weapon.
Just then, a sharp pain shot through Chell's shoulder. These bullets were different from the turrets' bullets, and she could still feel it inside of her, whereas the turrets' bullets sat inside of you, doing nothing.
"Here, take this medkit." a man handed her one of the medical looking things she saw earlier. The man helped her push buttons, and felt as the bullet inside of her dissolved and leaked out of her wound, before seeing her wound close up.
The Vortigaunts shot these energy blasts out from their bare hands and shot them at soldiers. Some of who exploded, and some of who just twitched violently and dropped to the ground.
"GUNSHIP!"
Gordon pulled an RPG from the holding area on his back, and as Chell wondered how many weapons this man had, he launched one of the rockets in the ship's direction. She saw that Gordon could control the rocket as it was still in the air.
She groaned along with everyone else as the rocket was shot down, and she herself started firing her own weapon at the ship. She ducked behind the chimney as the gunship started spraying bullets down.
Adrenaline pumped through her veins as the battle took place. She jumped down onto the ground, thankful that she had her long-fall boots on, and others used the portal she placed earlier to get down. After a while, Chell could see the fight was coming to a close as the ship started to explode black smoke from all it's engines. Everyone watched as Gordon Freeman loaded up the RPG, aimed, and fired.
Everyone was silent as they watched the rocket fly into the air, avoiding the gunships bullets, and eventually land into the blades keeping it up.
Multiple explosions went off, as the gunship started to fall down, knocking over trees and sending branches everywhere as everyone looked for cover. With a loud thud, the gunship had crashed and continued to slide along the earth, before stopping in front of a giant tree.
Everyone cheered as they saw they had won, and then started up a headcount. Two people had died, and as the Resistance placed them gently in a cavern they found in the forest, Chell looked at the lifeless faces of people who wanted nothing more than their freedom, and had given their lives in doing so.
She decided right then that the Combine would not get away with this, and she was willing to do anything it takes to 'kick their ass.'
"Whoa, that was intense!" Dylan ran up right beside her. "You were amazing, Chell! I couldn't believe that you actually jumped from the roof, and you're still okay! I mean, the boots helped, but having the guts to actually do it, whoa! That was amazing, Chell!"
Chell smiled at him, then realized that she had been smiling a lot this past day.
She wondered how much she'd be smiling when the Combine were finally nothing but history.
"Fantastic ass-kickin' Doc!" Barney called to Gordon. "You too, Alyx, Chell, and Dylan! Just think, with the robots GLaDOS would make for us, we will win this war! We won't have to worry about Combine anymore! All we would need to worry about are those damn headhumpers. And those nasty barnacles too. You know one threw up on me once? Nasty little bastards, those things are. Then, we'll clean up the oceans of all the leeches and Itchyosaurs, find out where those Gargs, Bullsquids and other little pests are, and send them all to Kingdom Come! Just think! Soon things will be just the way they were."
"And we can reproduce!" Another member said.
"And recreate the government, one that doesn't suck this time!"
"And not to mention the economy! That was a real timb-bomb waiting to go off."
Chell listened as all the Resistance members talked about what life was like before this all happened. She wished she could be a part of it, but the only memories she had were of Aperture. And everyone was so sure that GLaDOS would help. Chell wished with all her heart that Caroline hadn't really been deleted.
